Extra Dimensional Music and Nerdage

Best Gift For Your Synth Player Friend 2017

Synthesizers can be pretty expensive, but the company Korg has been doing a great job of making inexpensive synths with amazing features like the “Volca” line. These are small footprint analog synthesizers that have all kinds of nifty features like sequencers, ring modulators, and delays.

The Volca Keys is not new, having first come out in 2013, but is just as cool today as it was when it was first introduced. No other company besides Korg has been able to come up with a competitively priced synthesizer with the amazing features the Volca Keys has.

Some of it’s most impressive features are:

MIDI input – this was the big problem with Korg’s “Monotron” series. Cool as they are, there’s no way to control them with an external device. This is not the case with the Volca Series.

Three voice polyphony – of course this isn’t amazing compared to digital synths, but as far as analog goes, it’s better than being Monophonic, which is what most other analog synths are that are under $700 by other manufacturers.

Built-in sequencer, ring modulator, and delay with automation – Not only is there a sequencer, but all of the built-in fx can be automated within the sequencer. This is very cool and opens up all kinds of possibilities.